乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨的《狐火:一个少女帮的自白》生动再现了一幅美国少女在社会夹缝中艰难生存的图景。以长腿为首的主人公们置身在各种伦理身份混乱的环境下,面临着个人道德选择与社会伦理道德规范的冲突,纠缠在伦理意识的觉醒与丧失中,最终走向了不可挽回的结局。她们的悲剧实际上也是一出伦理悲剧,作者以此呼吁大众给予弱者人文的关怀,呼吁社会应建构良好的伦理道德秩序。 Joyce Carol Oates’s Fierce Fire: Confessions of a Girly Girl vividly reproduces the picture of an American girl struggling to survive in society. The protagonists headed by long legs are confronted with various ethical identities confronted with the confusion between individual moral choices and social ethics, and they are entangled in the awakening and loss of ethical awareness and eventually lead to irreversible ending. In fact, their tragedies are also an ethical tragedy. The author therefore appealed to the public to give humane care to the underprivileged and called for the society to construct a good ethical and moral order.